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Good morning, Millennials.

Welcome back to the Morning Toast.

Happy Thursday.

Jackie and I are coming to you podcast only from the Music City Center, Nashville, Tennessee.

Yes, we are.

We're so excited to be in Nashville.

We've only been here for 12 hours, and already it's just so full of life.

It is.

It's full of promise.

Full of fresh air, full of country music, full of reasonable restaurants with big seating areas.

With banquettes.

With banquettes.

And no lines.

No lines and just like lovely people and lots of handsome men.

Yeah.

Wow.

I didn't know you were like out cruising.

I'm merely an

observer.

Yeah.

And there's a few single gals in our group, so I'm just constantly being a good friend, looking out for the others.

You're such a giver.

That is what people say about me that is what they say about you well we have a really fun show for you today we also have a really fun day planned but like i love podcasting on vacation because we just come at you with renewed energy and spirit it's definitely different energy and spirit i feel like the fresh air i've received in the last 12 hours will fill me up for years to come yes and speaking of being filled up like i am so filled up with my passions i would be rdh if i didn't let you know that the new episode of the redheads is out now i edited it on the plane yesterday and I was laughing in my seat.

It was really funny because the book we chose, Smitch chose, is like so snitchy and it was good enough, but when you have to start like, you know, talking about it as if it's Homer, I know, it gets really hard.

So check out the Redheads Book Club.

You don't have to have read this book to listen to the episode.

If you just want to hear some girls having a good time.

And also, speaking of books, I was too reading A Snitch's Choice on the Plane.

I had started it on my last trip and I wasn't like taken by it, but I did like 50% of it on the plane.

And it was really sweet.

It's called Swear on This Life.

It's Renee Carlino.

I read The Redheads Before We Were Strangers, read Renee Carlino.

Renee Carlino is a picture.

Yeah, this one is good.

It's like

it's just hard when you like really don't like the main character.

Oh, it's so hard.

And she obviously just has like a lot of trauma, which is why she's like kind of mean to everyone.

But it's like, girl, be nice to your boyfriend.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm sure she'll learn.

Or break up with him.

Like, stop stringing him along, you know?

Yeah, no, I think Snatcher, she'll learn her lesson.

Hopefully.

Um, other than that, what else is new?

We got spray tanned, so we're literally like so truly this time beautiful, stunning, and smart.

We are two oompa loompas sitting on a bunk bed in the middle of Nashville recording an award-winning podcast.

And that is truly all you can ask from your podcast hosts.

Yeah, yeah, I guess we are oompa loompas.

I was trying to like, I haven't had a spray tan in 18 months, literally, and I forgot how good it feels.

Like, shave off those three pounds.

The confidence.

Get a spray tan.

Yeah.

When you can't tone it, tan it.

Is that a saying?

Yeah.

That's pretty cool.

And I think that's like going to be when people are like, what is your favorite piece of life advice?

Like, and everyone's like, you know, be yourself, everyone else is taken.

Mine is when you can't tone it, tan it.

My favorite is

rise and grind and listen to your body.

That's good too.

Also, Manplan Godlacht.

Oh, that's not advice, that's just a cautionary.

No, that's like words of wisdom.

Yeah, words of wisdom.

W-O-W-like, the wise Russian proverb I shared at dinner last night.

Yeah, Jackie was

Jackie's just kind of becoming this like Russian queen,

czar.

She's becoming a Russian czar with like her romanov itch and just like she's really elevated her her interests in the last year and if you're looking for any good proverbs jackie has a bank of them in her mind that she can share with you when applicable well at dinner last night we were just talking about how so many celebrities like just this price of fame it's like if you were a certain celebrity and you reached that level of fame like you would retire to florida like take right the money and run if you had enough money to live forever you don't need to stay in the constant like in the guilt torture of of fame but the fame is so addicting we were talking about demi Lovato's documentary.

That's how it started.

Right.

And so it's, it reminded me because on the book I started this, on the plane, I started this book, The Romanov Empress, and it opens with a quote that's a Russian proverb that says, fame and misfortune live in the same garden.

And I liked it, but I do really feel like that it should have just been, fame and fortune grow in the same garden.

I just think that.

Maybe it did.

Maybe it was.

I'll have to get my Kindle.

Okay.

Don't, don't.

Don't underestimate the Russian proverbs.

No, I wouldn't, because I don't think they would make such an obvious mistake.

Because you don't live in a garden.

You grow in a garden.

Okay, I'll get my Kindle later.

I highlighted it.

Okay, okay.

It's a Kindle highlight.

We've got a great show.

Actually, lots of celebrities like just weirdly going on.

So I think we should dive into it.

We did not watch The Real House of New Jersey last night because

we just didn't.

We were en route.

We were en route to Nashville and then we had like margaritas and it was just like not going to work.

I know.

And I didn't even, I don't, I think there is a TV in my room.

There's not one in my room.

It's not being turned on.

No.

So we've got a great show.

Otherwise, we have a lot of pipeline news to talk about.

We are getting into the pipeline because you guys, we are at the center of the pipeline crisis.

And if you don't know what it is, that's fine.

I didn't know what it was either.

And Jackie literally texted me before our trip.

I was about to pick her up from the airport and she said, do you think the colonial pipeline, is that what it's called?

The colonial pipeline.

The colonial pipeline is going to be going to affect our trip.

And I was like, lol, what is that?

And are you kidding?

And she was like, no, I'm dead fucking serious.

And she was right.

It is affecting our trip.

We'll tell you all about it when we discuss.

We'll tell you all about it in today's oil and gas news.

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But without further ado, do it.

Do, where are you?

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Miss Dew, Miss Brew, miss the boys.

Here are the past five stories that you need to know before you wake up and take a bite out of your morning toast.

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Okay, first story.

Colton Underwood says he was blackmailed into coming out.

Colton Underwood claims that he didn't come out of the closet willingly, but was forced to due to blackmail.

The Bachelor Star says that last year, an anonymous creep claimed to have secretly taken nude photographs of him at an LA gay spa and threatened to out him, which prompted his decision to publicly reveal his orientation last month, according to Variety.

He said, I, at one point during my rock bottom, and spiral, was getting blackmailed.

Nobody knows I was blackmailed.

He told Variety that he got the threat in an email after going to the club, which he claims he visited just to look.

He said, I never should have been there.

The anonymous emailer's threat to use Natic pics to out him terrified Colton, and in a fit of panic, he forwarded the message to his publicist.

He said, I knew that out of anybody in my world, my publicist wasn't going to ruin me.

The PR flak eventually sat Underwood down for a frank discussion about his sexual orientation.

So, I mean, this kind of reminds me of Nikki tutorials when somebody had blackmailed her into telling the world that she was trans.

And I just can't believe that there are actual people out there who would do that.

Like, that is moral depravity at its finest.

Like, that is truly evil.

Like, people like that are going to hell.

Like, it's so evil.

But I really am shocked that, like, the industry is really standing by Colton when there was really a lot of outrage when he publicly came out.

Like, and now he's this article, he's on the cover of Variety.

Yeah, yeah and it says controversial confession so i just and he's getting this netflix show and i'm just like really shocked that like there's all this kind of push around him when the people really seem to like be on cassie's side yeah and um

I haven't read the article, but I've seen a lot of press on it.

And like, it doesn't, it feels like he talks a lot about a lot of things, but not a lot about Cassie, which is really what people want to hear.

Yeah, the other headline from the article is that he says that he experimented with men before The Bachelor.

He said, I'll say this.

I was the Virgin Bachelor, but I did experiment with men prior to being on the bachelorette.

He said, when I say hookups, not sex, I want to make that very clear that I did not have sex with a man prior to that.

He also revealed that he joined the dating app Grinder under an alias in 2016 and 2017, though he's currently single now and is not on the app.

So was he catfishing?

Like, was he using a picture of him?

I'm sure he wasn't using a picture of him.

He's notable.

I guess in some ways that's catfishing.

I don't know if he ever met up with anyone.

Right.

Maybe he just wanted to see what was out there.

Yeah.

I think that that's something that people would do.

Yeah.

You know,

I'm sure people in relationships do it too.

I actually know someone who did it.

Yeah.

Yeah, no, this is just like a very complex story.

Yeah, I hear what you're saying.

It feels like when he came out, the people said, like, what about Cassie?

There's a, there has been a lot of outrage, but the media is saying we're going full stop on Colette.

Right.

Like, he's getting his own show.

He's on the cover of magazines, which is like, honestly, for a bachelor contestant to be on the cover of variety, which is like the biggest trade in Hollywood, it's like literally on every person's desk who works in Hollywood.

It's a huge deal.

It's honestly a bigger deal than being on the cover of people.

It's 100%.

It's a really reputable magazine.

He is being thoroughly endorsed by the industry all systems ago.

We're giving him all he got.

And I just find that interesting.

Yeah.

And I also just would wonder, like, who does he, who's on his team?

Because it's all about like, you know, who do you think?

Manager, publishes.

Like, I'm sure, I don't think the of variety is like a huge fan of cultan on the back right so he clearly has a team of very skilled skilled and high profile people working for him yeah and now with the netflix show i just think it's gonna really catapult him and again i think i'm not the only person like struggling with how to make sense of this because on the one hand it's a huge step forward for the franchise and just like the world in general and it's so cool to have like this really kind of figure of masculinity come out as gay but it's much more layered as most things are and there's a huge conversation that's like not really happening yeah no it's not it's not happening i feel like people were trying to have it but i also feel like you know the headlines decide what conversations we're gonna have and the headlines don't want to talk about cassie like at all no they are leaving her in the dust but bacheloration does like bachelor names with cassie yeah yeah and that's that um also cassie's a new boyfriend i saw i saw that too i didn't know that yeah um he's a cutie i'm really happy for her she's just one of those people who now are

live permanently in my list of people I wish good things for.

Oh, that's so sweet.

It's been so long since there's been a new addition to the list.

I know.

And the list is so small.

So small and ever-changing.

Okay.

Are you ready for our next story?

I am.

It's some relatable hosting news from Oprah that is just like a crazy story.

So Oprah Winfrey is revealing the one big mistake from a celebrity interview that still makes her cringe.

Oprah went on Rob Lowe's Literally podcast on Wednesday where she revealed one question from a celebrity interview she conducted many years ago that still haunts her to this day.

Oh my God, like that's like when you do something when you're drunk and like it literally haunts you for the rest of your life.

Yep.

Her story was stirred by Rob mentioning he gets annoyed by the fact that current late-night talk shows are so focused around the guests playing silly games and that he wishes they would go back to a time when a fascinating celebrity such as Bert Reynolds would just sit down and tell stories.

Yeah.

Oprah replies, oh Bert Reynolds.

Oh gosh, I have a Burt Reynolds story.

She prefaced it by saying her memory was in the category of flubs in the world.

Oprah went on to explain that the incident happened when she was much younger and interviewing Sally Field, who not only shared the screen with Bert in such projects as Smokey and the Bandit, but also dated the late screen legend in real life for a number of years.

My big mistake, I asked her, does Bert sleep with his toupee on?

That is a shady fucking question.

My own mogo recalled to a stun Rob.

I even say now, I cringe to even think that I asked that question because I asked it because the producers are like, you have to ask, you have to ask, you have to ask.

That's what everybody wants to know.

She continued, and so I asked it and she went cold on me.

She shut down and I cannot get in again.

Oh my God, that's the worst.

You can tell, there are so many classic like interview moments you can watch on YouTube when a celebrity just stops.

I mean, there's that horrible interview with Megan Kelly and Jane Fonda.

Oh my God, this reminded me of that too.

When Megan Kelly, and even though I don't like Megan Kelly, I did think that Jane Fonda was a little rude, only because Jane Fonda was asked a question by Megan about plastic surgery and how she's like so proud she doesn't hide her plastic surgery.

So Megan was just kind of feeding off of Jane's story.

Jane talks about it all the time.

So it's like, but now you don't want to talk about it.

It was hilarious to watch, but it was cringe.

And there are a few interviews that like I will remember in time.

I love when a celebrity walks off of an interview, when Courtney Kardashian walked up of some Australian morning show and pretended she was frozen because they asked her about Kim after the robbery.

And like they weren't talking about it yet, which I thought was actually like a really rude question.

Yeah.

And then also Joan Rivers walked off of a CNN interview once

where the interviewer was just being like a weenie, like, look, Joan, you don't want to offend people?

And Joan was like, it's a joke.

Like, it's a joke.

They were just making, like, she was pressing her on Joan, like, making fun of women's dresses.

And Joan's philosophy was like, if you're making $25, $25 million a movie, like, I'm allowed to make fun of your dress.

And the interviewer was just being such a weenie.

And Joan just got up and left.

Good for her.

She's like, I make people left.

It's the best video.

I miss Joan.

But I feel what you're saying.

That's so funny that even Oprah has one of those moments.

I feel like those moments are such a learning yes moment for people in the industry and now i'm trying to think back to like cringy questions i've asked and i don't think i've ever asked like an inappropriate question but we always laugh because so many times when we do interviews like yes i just like stumble

no and then when it's your turn to come up with a question like you string together words that maybe don't actually equate to anything no no no like i say it no no no i say a statement and it's like but what's the question

so

that's what i'm working on as an interviewer i'm working on not talking over the interviewee.

Yeah, yeah, that's a whole listening.

But you know what?

You don't become Oprah without moments like that.

Yeah, no, like you have to learn sometimes.

And I'm sure she had an illustrious career where she never offended anyone again because she learned in such a real way.

No, and you can't become perfect at your craft without making mistakes here and there, but it's, it does feel good to know.

Like even Oprah messed up, you know?

Yeah.

No, it does feel good to know.

And also, Oprah's going on Rob Lowe's podcast.

That's the other thing.

Lots of podcasting news today because Harry's on, Prince Harry's on Armchair Expert.

Yeah.

And Oprah's on Rob Lowe's podcast.

So I just think the real takeaway here is that we're in the correct industry.

100%.

I totally agree.

And that makes me feel good, you know, vacationing and podcasting.

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Okay, next story.

Ben and Jen's reunion is good for both of them now, says a source.

We haven't spoken about Ben and Jen since last week.

People are like, not.

You want to know why?

The words have my favorite TikTok sound because I, Como Sediche, don't give a fuck.

Like, I just don't care about these people.

The reason why I, we talked about how they were, like, spotted together.

interesting.

Interesting.

Still, they're just being spotted together some more.

They're in Montana.

They're obviously together.

Like what?

Like, I, you know what?

I can't fathom that they're together.

I really

like, I don't know what this is, but this is why it makes no fucking sense to me that they would be together.

First of all, she was just engaged in an extremely long-term relationship last week.

Okay.

Like, that's not something that you just get over.

But I do think that they've been broken up for longer than they said.

Like, with that whole Madison LaCroix thing, I think they've been like broken up since then.

Okay, fine.

Second, like, this is the man who literally jilted at her at the altar.

Like, what are you doing?

I, I, unless they're making out like under the altar with wedding rings on their fingers, I'm not going to believe that these two are a couple.

Well, this would be like Jennifer Anison getting back with Brad Pitt.

Like, after some man put you through so much, 20 years later, are you going to take him back?

Time does heal all wounds, though.

And like, maybe they're past it.

But Matt Damon went on GMA and he was asked about it.

And he was like, I don't know if they're together, but like, I'll be so happy if they are.

So, like, maybe they were a great couple who just never got like a true chance because he ran away with Jennifer Garner.

Yeah.

But I thought that was a great relationship.

Jennifer I think Ben Affleck is the problem.

Yeah, I think so too.

He's been in so many fantastic relationships and he just is on to the next one.

And he just can't make any of them work.

And so I just don't think that this is going to be the answer to the J, to J-Lo's questions.

No, but as I stand on the side of J-Lo, I do think this is a great next step for her to move on.

Like a rebound with an ex, like that's always fun.

After a long-term relationship, then I think she'll, I just, I'm, I just can't get past the A-ron of it all.

I think that's where I'm stuck because I was so

like getting my boating license to be the driver of their ship.

Like, I was so invested, and I thought they were really like the best couple.

So now everything else just seems trivial to me, and I don't care.

Yeah, I, I, I divested from A-Rod like a long time ago, so I feel prepared for the next ship that is coming in.

I just, I, this ship could literally run me over, and I still wouldn't see it.

Yeah, no, I just like don't care.

And every time they're spotted, it's like confirmation.

No, no, they are together, confirm.

Like, we know that.

No, I think it's more likely that they are like partnering on a new company or something than they are

back in the sack.

Maybe, maybe.

Like, I just, I don't understand how, I don't understand who would do that.

I don't understand either, but crazier things have happened.

And let me just say, like, if I'm so wrong, which I probably am, like, I'm not unhappy about it.

Like, they're two successful, attractive consenting adults.

Consenting adults, like, let, you know, it throws, it harks back nostalgia.

I just like, if a man left me at the altar.

I don't know if my pride could really ever get over that.

I think that would be that on that for me.

For me, that would definitely be that on that.

But maybe for J-Lo, it would be this for this on this, you know, you never know.

She's a different woman than us.

Everybody's different.

Yeah, but she must have a lot of pride.

No, not pride.

Humility to like get back.

Some people would be too proud to get back with the person that left them at the altar.

Yeah, but that might like relate to just feelings in general of like, you know, someone leaves you at the altar.

I would imagine you're feeling insecure.

But when you're J-Lo, you probably don't ever feel insecure because you're so fucking perfect.

You're incapable of that feeling, therefore you just kind of skip that step.

Right, so you just keep going.

It's like, oh, that's a man I almost married.

I didn't feel any sort of way.

Whatever.

Maybe we'll get married again.

No, that's fair.

I think Snitch just arrived at the house.

Snitch?

Go up one flight of stairs.

We're just podcasting.

With your suitcase.

Yeah, your room is upstairs.

The snitch?

Your room is with me next to the kitchen.

The snitch has arrived.

Love you.

Love you, Sandler.

The snitch has arrived.

The party can truly begin.

The party can truly begin.

We were just wasting time until the snitch arrived.

We gotta get her thoughts on Bennifer.

Actually, Margot is Gen Z, right?

Like, big time.

Shh, they don't care.

Yeah.

Oh, you know what we need to talk about?

Speaking of Gen Z.

What?

This word choogie.

Chugie.

We've recently, because we're millennials, we've only recently discovered that.

Because Claudia did something choogie and someone called her out for it.

I found out what this word means.

Snitch is stomping upstairs like an elephant.

By the way, I got called choogie on TikTok and I've kind of been having an identity crisis ever since.

And I think that it's one that's warranted.

I think you're in a transitional time in your life.

But I think I don't get enough credit for being born in 1994.

Like, I don't know, but saying things like that is extremely.

No, no, no, it's not.

Let me just make my case.

Let me just make my case, okay?

Okay, I'll hear you out.

Okay, yes.

Literally, I think Gen Z starts in like 1996.

So I'm only two years away, but I'm actually very emotionally immature and I really spend a lot of time on TikTok.

Therefore, I think I'm really like a zillennial.

Okay.

Maybe we should start the show every morning by saying, good morning, Zelennials.

The fact that we start our show, good morning, millennials, we might as well say good morning.

Chugies, we're so embarrassing from your fellow chugies.

No, we are so embarrassing.

But the only thing about chugi, it's not necessarily just an age.

It's also the vibe of like basic Starbucks fall.

Yes.

Let me put...

pull up the official urban dictionary.com definition of chugi because a lot of people don't even know what it is.

Yeah.

And where is urban dictionary?

And then I think we should go through some things that you could do to be less chugi.

Because like, because it's really important to you to not be seen as choogie.

Okay, according to urban dictionary.com, choogie is another way to describe aesthetics, people, experiences that are basic.

It was coined by now 23-year-old white woman in 2013 while a student at Beverly Hills High School on whom the irony is apparently lost.

Okay, according to the New York Times, chugi is pronounced choogie and it can be used to broadly to just it can be used broadly to describe someone who is out of date or trying too hard

that is me that's literally me that's literally you haven't been irrelevant since i was canceled in 2018 and i'm just like desperately trying to like be relevant and trying too hard i think we could turn it around for you it's never too late like i don't think i'm choogy because i'm just like

You're very stylish.

You're actually not basic at all.

So from an aesthetics point of view, you are not choogy.

Right.

If there was like a word for millennials who are aging too quickly, there I am.

By the way, you know what?

I just realized our trip this is very chuggy of us like we we've literally it is right because like we've literally planned like a full-blown black charrette party when we literally don't have a bride we're just like being chuggy like millennials

all around nasheville like wearing boots and hats like we we okay stop no we have to unchugify this trip here are things that we could do to to take

fabulous look fabulous no crossbody bags i said this a year ago but what about the prada one and i got so much cheat don't count that's not a no you don't mean crossbody you mean messenger I mean messenger.

Jackie

really got annihilated in the stylish steen's group.

And I just want to say, this is what I said.

The women of Real House of New York were going to a party in the Hampton.

At a socialites house.

At a socialites house.

They were wearing some like nice, you know,

evening wear and crossbody bags.

Well, just Leah.

Someone else was wearing a bag.

She's wearing a YSL messenger bag, not crossbody.

There's a difference.

Other women were wearing like long strap bags with their maxi dresses.

That is a big fat no for me.

Crossbody bags in general.

Like, if you're going to the airport, if you're shopping, like those Prada cross bodies that we love, like, those are like what you wear with athleisure.

No, and those are.

And I wear with a fucking dress.

Those are very stylish now.

Right, but when you do wear the proda bag, and you're like last night, you wore a dress and you unclipped your bag from the strap.

And I wore it as a brand.

And you wore it as a purse.

And I stand by what I said.

So, first of all, we need to make sure there needs to be a check out the door.

No one's wearing a crossbody messenger.

Okay, but you're gonna have that.

There's a lot of girls here.

You're gonna have to check every one of them.

Yeah, I will do it.

We have to unchubify this tray ASAP.

We need the bags to get smaller.

Yeah.

We need smaller bags.

And we just need like,

I don't know.

Everyone here is actually very stylish and cool, so I'm not really worried about it.

I don't think we're not like a chugy bunch, but I agree we could be.

The concept of this trip is very choogy.

Yeah, but I think we'll defy our chuginess.

We have to defy the chugi yugs.

Oh my god, I'm freaking.

But you know what?

I also think there's something to be said for being chuggy and proud.

You know, you know, sometimes it's just like embrace who you are.

Don't be a self-hating chugie.

And if you're someone who, you know what, you are Starbucks Fall, pumpkin spice latte, and like those things make you happy, embrace it.

I kind of agree with that too.

I don't, I think I'm a self-hating choogie, but I don't really don't want to be a self-hating millennial because that's like who I am.

You think so?

I like this word.

You said zillennial.

Yeah, it's, I think I'm a zillennial.

Are other people saying this word?

Yes.

Okay, go with that.

I'm going to say that.

So when we say good morning, millennials, you should say.

I say, I just slip in the Z.

Slip in the Z.

I think that's a good idea.

For the Gen Z-ers.

We met some Gen Z-ers at dinner last night, some toasters.

Some Vanderbilt young toasters.

I never felt so old in my life.

Oh, really?

It didn't make you feel like one of the girls?

Well, it did make me feel cool that, like, I assume they were freshmen.

They looked so young.

Like, freshmen in college, like, listen to the toast.

Like, at least we're not as irrelevant as we thought we were.

Yeah, no, like.

And they're cool.

They went to Vanderbilt.

They were ringing mad happy.

Like, it doesn't get cooler.

It doesn't get cooler than that.

Yeah.

That was a nice, you know, feeling.

Yeah.

Anyways, shout out to the chugies, proud or ashamed.

Like, it's never too late to turn things around.

Shout out to the open chugies and the closeted chuggies.

Like, we are all chugies.

Yeah.

We've all been choogies, too.

Yeah, I've been chuggie many times in my life.

So many.

And I kind of love that there's like a word for that aesthetic.

And it's better than basic because basic is also just like a word in the dictionary that's a descriptor.

And it got really overplayed really fast.

And there was never an actual meaning for it.

Yeah, it's just like a vibe.

So I'm just, I'm glad.

I'm happy for the choogies.

Me too.

Happy for us.

And only if you want to be one.

Yeah, that's fair.

But I don't think, I don't, I think in general, like you're not chugi, but you did say something that was choogie.

I exhibited chuggy-like qualities.

You did, and you got called out.

I did.

And now you've learned.

Yeah, and and on TikTok of all places, it was so embarrassing.

Yeah, I hadn't heard the word before, so that's how chewy I am.

Yogi, literally.

Okay, are you ready for the new inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2021?

I mean, like, I don't care, but sure.

It's always interesting, you know, to see where we're at with the inductees of the 2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class.

Babe Girl.

Here's Foo Fighters, yeah.

Here are the inductees.

The Go-Go's.

We love it.

The Go-Gos are the girls band, yes.

Rock and roll.

Yeah, I guess it's just like

music.

Also, this is Cleveland's claim to fame.

So shout out to Cleveland.

I love Cleveland.

Stay perfect.

Stay perfect.

Stay just like small and peaceful.

Jay-Z, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Oh, so it's music.

It's not like.

It's whatever Cleveland wants it to be.

Okay, yeah.

Okay, I approve of all these.

Tina Turner.

Of course.

How was she not in it before?

I know.

Foo Fighters.

I thought they would have been in it before as well.

Carol King.

Oh.

Is that the musical song?

Yeah,

yeah.

Yeah, it's that beautiful Carol King musical.

My in-law saw it and like literally plopped their head off.

They said it was like the best musical ever.

And Todd Rundgren.

Don't know him.

So that's exciting.

Yeah.

Congratulations.

Looks like they're missing the singer of toast, but.

There's always next year.

I'll get him next year.

That's just pretty cool.

But I wonder why.

That makes no sense.

Like, how is Tina Turner and Jay-Z in the same year?

Like, they're literally from different generations.

I I don't know.

That's disrespectful to Tina Turner.

I agree.

She should have been in it years ago.

Better late than never.

So make sure to head on over to Cleveland.

And check out the rock and roll.

We should take a trip.

Maybe the Hall of Fame will reach out now and maybe, like, put me in it.

It's just, like, crazy how now in New York, like, every day is a Cleveland day.

It's not like, oh, I had a Cleveland day today.

It's like, I had a Cleveland year.

Before the pandemic, Cleveland days were.

Maybe like once every six months.

Yeah, where you just like were at your wits end with the way that things go in the city and like you just everything went wrong for you.

For those who don't know, I encourage you to go find the episode where jackie first discovered a cleveland day when she smacked she literally almost took down a cvs self-checkout machine because she was just having one of those days and those days really make you think like why do i live in new york i could be living in cleveland yeah cleveland sounds great right now so a cleveland day is just like when you can't with your city specifically new york but wherever you live works too wherever you live works too but i just imagine you would have left stays because nothing's as torturous as New York.

Yeah, no, like I don't think those days exist anywhere else but New York.

No.

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Okay, we need to talk about our fifth and final story, like the real news that we actually, that's actually affecting people's lives.

It's really affecting us.

The colonial pipeline was hacked last weekend and it has been down.

But today, on Wednesday, around 5 p.m.

Eastern Time, it is now back up and restarted, but still, there is going to be delays.

So the colonial pipeline has restarted after the hack, but the supply chain won't return to the normal.

Let's start from the beginning.

For a few days.

What's the colonial pipeline, Jeff?

The colonial pipeline is a pipeline that goes from Houston.

And that's a pipe that is in the

ground.

Yes.

Okay.

That goes from Houston to New Jersey.

It's 5,500 miles of pipe, of some good pipe.

You're laying the pipe, yeah?

That

supplies oil, gas, fuel to major states, cities, airports.

And that's like the oil for gas stations and planes and fuel.

Yes, exactly.

And it supplies around half of the East Coast's fuel.

Damn.

So it was hacked.

And let's talk about that.

And it was been offline since Friday after the company fell back.

It's a digital pipe.

I don't understand that.

How do you hack a pipe?

Unless they mean hack in a physical sense with an axe.

No, they hacked in a

digital

sense.

They were wanted ransom.

They wanted like cryptocurrency, $5 million.

Did they want Doge?

Was it me?

Did I hack the colonial pipeline?

Looking for Doge.

And they wouldn't pay the ransom.

They finally got their...

got it back.

They like are they decided to, instead of getting the hacking back, like to get it back manually.

So that's why it's taken so long.

Yeah, I don't understand how a pipe gets hacked.

Yeah, that's where I'm like, I just, I can't get past the rest of the story because like I refuse to understand how a pipe is digital.

A pipe is a physical thing.

Like it makes no fucking sense.

Yeah, so all week I was seeing stuff of like, and you're telling me, wait, sorry, like we are technologically advanced enough to have a digital pipe, but like the subway never works.

Make it make sense.

No, I, I, I can't.

I can't.

I truly can't.

I won't.

I tried to understand and I found out about this because of the 30 minutes I spent waiting for Elon Musk on SNL.

And I was watching the local news, and

the pipeline had happened the day before.

So I was like, oh, that's interesting.

Like, hopefully they get it together.

But then all week I was seeing in Florida, Atlanta, Georgia.

They ran out of gas.

They ran out of gas, like crazy lines at the gas station.

People showing up with plastic bags to fill, to bring gas home.

That's terrible.

There was like major percentages of gas stations in so many states that were just no more gas.

And Tennessee is included.

So we were like, we were like, can we get an Uber from the airport?

And also, before we left, the colonial pipeline supplies the gas and fuel for the airport right in Nashville.

So I was like, are we going to be able to get home?

Right, no.

And this is why you have a Tesla.

This is why you have a Tesla.

We need Tesla planes.

Yeah, soon.

But anyway, so every time we got an Uber at the airport, and I was like, what do you think about what's going on?

And he was like, well, look at the gas stations.

Like, they're totally closed.

We were driving by.

They were either completely closed or lines down the block.

Right.

And so he was like, I have a full take now.

I was like, so what are you going to do when it's done?

He's like, go home.

He's like, no more Uber for days.

He's like, there's going to be no more Uber in three or four days.

And so we're like, oh shit, okay, thanks.

That's literally the duration of our stay.

But then a few hours later, our other Uber driver, who seemed to be a little more informed on the situation, optimistic.

We were like, are you worried?

He's like, no, they're already working on the plant.

Like, it's going to be fine.

Yeah.

And also, as of 5 p.m.

yesterday, so right around the time we were having these conversations, they got things restarted.

Okay.

It's going to take some time to get it back up to speed.

But what a crazy thing to just like have no oil or gas for a week.

No, it's literal like horse times.

No, Paul Revere.

Paul Revere, we read this book for the Redheads, The Four Winds, about the Great Depression, and it was in an era where people had cars, but they couldn't afford to put the gas in their cars, so they had to go back to

horses as transport.

That's so twisted.

Isn't that so crazy to have a car in your garage, but you have to get around by horse?

No, that's like literally having a car in your garage and now having to use a bike because, like,

I think we should get some bikes for the weekend.

Yeah.

So crazy.

Also, you could get a self-driving horse, horse, but that's just a horse.

Yeah, that's true.

The options are very limited.

Well, I'm glad that this is getting resolved, but like, it's very rare.

Like, national news is like about you, you know, like, not to make it about me, but like, this is affecting me.

No, and it felt like when we were in New York, like, nobody gave a shred of a shit.

No.

And now that, like, we came to Nashville, it's like, wait, this is what's going on.

It's a huge issue.

More people should be talking about it.

More people should be talking about talking about it.

That's out of my soapbox, but like, where is the coverage?

I feel like we're field reporters.

Like, we came down here to find out what's going on.

Now, this might be a loaded question, but like, who is the hacker?

Unclear.

Got it.

Unclear.

Okay.

Yeah.

So

that's that.

I feel like it's one of those Disney Channel spy movies where like they're in the back of a van and they're like, I need you to get into the system.

Like, beep, ba-buru.

We're in.

That's literally how it happened.

Yeah.

Beep-ba-puru.

Papi-puri.

Dee-ta-doo-u.

Ugh, doo.

Do.

Well, those were the fast five stories.

I feel as though you actually really did need to know them.

We covered the oil and gas news, the Bennefer news.

Like that is a well-rounded podcast.

And that's the news you can only get here at the Morning Toast.

It's so true.

And also, if you are one of our East Coast toasters whose town, city, state has been very affected by the gas shortages, like we're thinking of you.

We really are.

Without further ado, I think that's that on that.

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We are, we're about to go get on a pound tune.

So we gotta go.

But we hope you guys have a great day and we'll see you on Monday in studio.

And if you want to see what we're up to this weekend, like feel the sceney vibes and the chuggie vibes, head over to our Instagram pages.

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I think I'm going to be placing a premium on premium content this weekend.

And I don't know about you, Claude.

I love that for you.

So not for you?

No, but like, I'll let you have your thing.

Like, that's your thing versus mine, you know?

Oh, that's like so sweet.

Yeah, I'm a nice person.

Okay, well, we'll see you on Monday.

Have a great, safe safe weekend.

Goodbye, goodbye, good bibbity-bye.